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Jo Langdon’s second poetry collection, Glass Life, is recently published by Five Islands Press. Jo was awarded a 2018 Sozopol Fiction Seminars fellowship by the Elizabeth Kostova Foundation, Bulgaria. She was the inaugural winner of the Rachel Funari Prize for Fiction in 2013, and is currently an editor for Mascara Literary Review.